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Dead Goon posted:Never heard of or eaten "Cheeselets". You beat me to it, Twiglets are made by feeding Marmite to flatulent people and having them fart over the production line letting the flavour gently waft over it all. "Waft" is my favourite word of the day.
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learnincurve posted:Nope, literally the last thing they want is white people fighting over subsidised First Nation housing on First Nation land* - what it is is if they can’t find enough Senakw then it will be opened up to other Squamish Nation and then the wider First Nation. I thought I was having a stroke when I saw road signs for Skwxwu7mesh on the Sea to Sky highway. (Also thought Vancouver was OK, not great, to visit. Maybe it's better if you live there)
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jiggerypokery posted:The monthly subscription is a book a month. It works out great if you cancel it now and then and catch up. I make the mistake of keeping it running and not listening to everything Thanks for your thoughts. I just wonder if one book per month wouldn't be enough for me, I know they have other stuff but it's a limited catalogue after your free book credit. Although I suppose you're effectively just buying an audiobook for £8 which isn't bad looking at the usual prices.
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Deketh posted:Unrelated, does anyone use Audible? I don't, sorry, as I don't take in information through my ears very well, but just wanted to make sure you'd heard of Librivox, which is free.
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Deketh posted:Got to go with cheeselets here, although I'm a big fan of a bunch of twiglets crammed into a tuna mayo sandwich. Yeh for years and years ama  . Basically I don’t watch TV at all and audiobooks are on my noise cancelling headphones about 8 hours a day, maybe more.It’s a commitment so do the trial first but the very best value for money is the 24 credit annual. The second best option is the two credits a month, and you can then buy three credits at a massive discount whenever you want. They have daily deals which range from £1.99 -£2.99 and pretty much weekly there are sales and 2 for 1 deal sales. The plus catalogue is a huge improvement on what they had before which was just free podcasts, they got some gems hidden in there like four of the cadfeal mysteries and all the Ellery Queen. It becomes all about the narrator and some series you would never think of reading become your favourites. Yes the obvious choice to blow your credits on is the discworld but here are some of the gems The moonstone with this exact narration: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Mo...PGG4YCP5M9YHD5K The legend that is the Peabody series: https://www.audible.co.uk/series/Am...K7715R77PMRNDB6 Comfort food for the soul, first one of three; https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Af...2QGTQXKJBPCAYYQ
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"How's Starmer doing?" "Well, badly." I dunno why I found that funny, might be because I am not a native speaker, I guess we find certain things funny that native speakers don't.
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His Divine Shadow posted:"How's Starmer doing?" Nah I had the same thought and I nominally speak English as a first language. I think the key is to have an appreciation of extremely dumb wordplay
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Oh dear me posted:I don't, sorry, as I don't take in information through my ears very well, but just wanted to make sure you'd heard of Librivox, which is free. Sweet, thanks! I'll be checking out Librivox for sure. learnincurve posted:Yeh for years and years ama Amazing, thank you. I've gone with the trial, didn't realise you could do those other packages but they sound good too. Will see how it goes and whether the plus catalogue works for me before committing any money to it though. Thanks again friends
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Deketh posted:Sweet, thanks! I'll be checking out Librivox for sure. Check out Steven Fry’s podcasts on the Victorians and Edwardians as well while you have access to them
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His Divine Shadow posted:"How's Starmer doing?" Failed Imagineer posted:Nah I had the same thought and I nominally speak English as a first language. I think the key is to have an appreciation of extremely dumb wordplay Also if you're a 90s kid and from around London (and maybe elsewhere? I dunno, it was before the internet) then "well badly" as well He got done wewl badly I want to go to see that wewl badly etc
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learnincurve posted:Check out Steven Fry’s podcasts on the Victorians and Edwardians as well while you have access to them Will do! Wanted to get his Mythos audiobook too.
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i'm not a huge audiobook fan but i took advantage of the trial a while back and snagged fry narrating holmes, based in part on the fact that it was hugely long. great to fall asleep to lol. not that it's boring so much as calming.
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https://twitter.com/CharlesCrossLPP/status/1447956442468732930 The Plymouth Herald article showed a photo of some of the intercepted packages.  It was nice to write this, especially considering that it was Charles Cross police officers who arrested me for cannabis crimes back in the day. https://twitter.com/stuwyatt/status/1448267776272044033
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Hello friends, I'm looking for some info on measuring the levels of moist and damp and poo poo (well, watery poo poo) in walls and ceilings and whatnot, with the goal of trying to predict whether a given apartment is currently a mold-infested shithole or about to become one in the (relatively) near future. Is this kind of measurement possible to do by yourself? I know nothing of anything at all, but might be able to buy some fantasy gadget to measure the wetness, if a reliable one exists. For example, here are some such devices (sorry about quality of link): https://www.humitec.fi/exotek/ Leaving aside the whole potential issue of importing gadgets from Germany or wherever during Brexit, is it realistic to dream of a device which you could just kinda tap onto a wall/ceiling/whatever, i.e. a structure made of wood (or maybe brick/concrete/something if possible), and measure the water content/humidity/moisture/something inside the structure?
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His Divine Shadow posted:"How's Starmer doing?" "Well badly" would also serve (Well can also be slang for very)
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The Audible annual deal is especially good value if you want newly release books. It's basically £4.60 to get stuff that's only otherwise available as a £20 hardback.
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jaete posted:Hello friends, I'm looking for some info on measuring the levels of moist and damp and poo poo (well, watery poo poo) in walls and ceilings and whatnot, with the goal of trying to predict whether a given apartment is currently a mold-infested shithole or about to become one in the (relatively) near future. Is this kind of measurement possible to do by yourself? I know nothing of anything at all, but might be able to buy some fantasy gadget to measure the wetness, if a reliable one exists. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tramex-ME5-Moisture-Encounter-5/dp/B07YDYTYPT/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=tramex+me5&qid=1614604271&sr=8-3 Tramex do some very good moisture meters, we have used them at work when assessing buildings for retrofit. They are very expensive but are good for different materials. There are tons of cheaper options out there but I can't speak for whether they are decent or not, and plenty will come with pins for insertion into bare timber but that's a bit invasive for viewings. I think you'd have to be fairly thorough and you'd have to do a little research on moisture levels to understand what your readings were telling you, but it's feasible.
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I would say to people to write stuff they want down *before* they pick a subscription, if it’s a list 12 long then, honestly, long term you want to be looking at getting one of the credits packages because a monthly £7.99 x 12 is £95.98 when 12 credits is £69.99, and 24 is £109.99. Yeh I know it’s a big initial outlay but if it’s your main entertainment then that’s less than a TV licence or netflix.
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jaete posted:Hello friends, I'm looking for some info on measuring the levels of moist and damp and poo poo (well, watery poo poo) in walls and ceilings and whatnot, with the goal of trying to predict whether a given apartment is currently a mold-infested shithole or about to become one in the (relatively) near future. Is this kind of measurement possible to do by yourself? I know nothing of anything at all, but might be able to buy some fantasy gadget to measure the wetness, if a reliable one exists. Yeah that's just a moisture meter, you can get them at Screwfix: https://www.screwfix.com/p/di-log-dl7108-digital-humidity-meter/9325k You can get cheaper ones off Amazon, it's really only a Wheatstone bridge so you could even knock one up yourself out of off-the-shelf components for a tenner - the more expensive ones will be much more reliable and repeatable. The thing is that if they're not used correctly - or with knowledge of what you're actually looking for - they can be pretty deceptive, as you'll get wildly different readings depending on what the surface and underlying structure is, and also you'll need to know what that structure is because gyprock needs to be dry as a bone but traditional plaster can be pretty damp with no issues, and you'll get varying results depending on time of day, weather, etc. The way they *should* be used is those prongs get poked straight through the surface dressing to the underlying surface (because as I say you can have pretty damp plaster and it's fine, but if the wood under it is as damp as that then that might be a concern, and if concrete is that damp you're hosed - or at least have some fun and expensive times in your future). However as this is destructive most people just lightly press them into the wall and instead test multiple places - most damp conditions are patchy so taking a load of samples is a good idea, wide variance on an identical wall is a bad sign. This can also help you work out if the damp is coming up from the foundations, down from the roof, from a leaky pipe in the wall, or is just condensation caused by poor ventilation.
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Sigh, been working from home just fine for 7 months now. My team who started 3 and 2 months ago respectively have been doing the same. Next week we have to start going into the office, one of the other higher ups had the advice of “working from home, if you want it, just have the conversation with our CEO, he’s a reasonable guy” and maybe that worked for him cause he’s known the guy for years. For me and my team I suggested a couple pretty reasonable potential options like hotdesking, with each of us rotating equally and such but just got a straight “nah” to all of them. So next week I can look forward to spending £300ish a month and 6/7 hours a week commuting to do the same job. Really wish everything wasn’t on fire right now or I’d potentially just jack it in tbh but that feels like a really stupid decision so I probably won’t. Can’t wait to experience some of this “greater cohesion, better workflow and comradeship” that’ll make it worth it I’m sure. thebardyspoon fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Oct 13, 2021 |
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Red Oktober posted:The new adaptation of The Sandman on Audible is absolutely excellent. James McAvoy, Michael Sheen, Arthur Darvill, Taron Egerton, Andy Serkis - they really have pulled the stops out. I keep meaning to get round to that - I have it on offer for free with my Amazon Prime. Act II is out now as well, covering Season of Mists and A Game of You.
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peanut- posted:The Audible annual deal is especially good value if you want newly release books. It's basically £4.60 to get stuff that's only otherwise available as a £20 hardback. I recognise that number Reveilled posted:Good news re: the lottery conversation from yesterday, I entered the lottery for the first time tonight and won.
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I won £2.90 on last night's lottery. I managed to gamble that up to £10.90 by buying online scratch cards, and I now have 2 tickets each for the next 2 Euromillions draws.
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thebardyspoon posted:So next week I can look forward to spending £300ish a month and 6/7 hours a week commuting to do the same job. Really wish everything wasn’t on fire right now or I’d potentially just jack it in tbh but that feels like a really stupid decision so I probably won’t. Job market is also on fire right now though - I've never seen it so competitive. Now is not a bad time to be looking.
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Red Oktober posted:Job market is also on fire right now though - I've never seen it so competitive. Now is not a bad time to be looking. Yeah maybe don't just up and leave but there are a lot of open vacancies out there atm, and finding work is probably easier now than it has been for a long while.
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https://twitter.com/NewsForAllUK/status/1448207779668316160 https://twitter.com/NewsForAllUK/status/1448215184170962948 https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1448240517469331460 fuctifino fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Oct 13, 2021 |
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/NewsForAllUK/status/1448207779668316160 a mother!!!!!! how DARE they!!!!!!
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fuctifino posted:loving lol. GBNews just happens to be there capturing it all. I think there's serious odds on it. ER had their moments but these guys seem designed from the ground up to do the dumbest most counterproductive things. Coincidental that no-one had even heard of these guys a month or two ago, like they just appeared out of thin air.
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They picked a cause where it's easier to say "the government should fulfill their promises and insulate housing" than "the government should implement unworkable laws to ban all protest" though. Gambled and won I guess, because arsehole ham island still went with the latter.
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/CharlesCrossLPP/status/1447956442468732930 lol lamentably poo poo stealth on those packages, shameful
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Communist Thoughts posted:What do they want? Insulation in housing? sort of wiki posted:Insulate Britain is an environmental activist group, formed by people involved in the global environmental movement Extinction Rebellion. The group began hosting both online and in-person events in July 2021, also raising money for direct action. JeremoudCorbynejad posted:When I first heard there's a protest group called "insulate Britain" I immediately assumed it was anti immigration, because that's the kind of oval office that seems to make up most of the British population same
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Communist Thoughts posted:What do they want? Insulation in housing? Yer our housing stock is absolutely shite
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